Luke 24:43

ἔφαγεν. This was one of the ‘infallible proofs’ appealed to in Acts 1:3; comp. John 21:12-13; “who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead,” Acts 10:41. The importance of this proof in the eyes of the Apostles may also be inferred from Tob 12:19, where the Angel says “All those days I did but make myself visible to you, and did neither eat nor drink but ye beheld a vision.” Jerome (adv. Pelag. II.) mentions a strange addition in some MSS., viz. that the disciples said that ‘the wickedness and incredulity of the age is a substance which does not permit the true virtue of God to be apprehended through impure spirits; therefore even now reveal Thy justice.’ A few MSS. and versions here add, ‘and gave them the remains.’